How did electricity change business in the United States

Stores and factories could stay open longer

How did the U.S. government significantly limit immigration from China

Chinese had to prove they had family living in America.

How did muckrakers influence progressive reforms?

Wrote articles and took photos of unsafe conditions.

How did the growth of Big Business affect immigration?

Encouraged an open immigration policy.

The case, Plessy vs. Ferguson 1896, went to trial because of the denial of which amendment?

14th Amendment granted equal citizenship to all Americans.

How did Orville and Wilbur Wright contribute to the rise of the United States as a world power?

Started the aircraft industry with their experiments flying.

Which of the following shows a hardship endured by immigrants after they arrived in America?

finding a suitable place to live

Which of the following is an example of supply and demand?

Farmers produced more crops causing the prices to fall.

What did the Supreme Court rule in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson?

African Americans would have separate but equal facilities.

What allowed Henry Ford’s Model T to be sold for less than half the cost of other cars?

the use of an assembly line and mass production

What impact did availability of electricity have upon the homes in the late 1800s?

led to the invention washing machines and vacuum cleaners., None of the above.

How did new methods of mass production contribute to the Industrial Revolution? (5-3.1)

by creating products more quickly and cheaply

How did the US economy change after Reconstruction?

The US became a manufacturing and production country.

Why did immigrants often live in communities with others from their home country?

It helped to make adjusting to life in America easier.

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A social studies quiz curriculum designed to review South Carolina standard 5-3 (Inventions, Immigration, and Industrial Revolution)

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1
How did electricity change business in the United States
Stores and factories could stay open longer
Every American could afford electricity for their home
Homes needed candles due to lack to of electricity
Electricity was immediately available to all US citizens.
2
How did the U.S. government significantly limit immigration from China
Chinese had to answer hard questions about US history.
Chinese had to prove they had family living in America.
Chinese immigrants had to pass a test for US citizenship.
Chinese immigrants worked for months on Angel Island.
3
Term refers to new ideas about how to do something as well as the equipment needed to do it?
Industrialization
Capital
Technology
Manufacturing
4
How did muckrakers influence progressive reforms?
Wrote articles and took photos of unsafe conditions.
They led rallies in support of Big Business.
Cleaned neighborhoods in large, overcrowded cities.
They established city parks and beautification projects.
5
How did the growth of Big Business affect immigration?
Encouraged an open immigration policy.
Big Business offered higher wages to immigrant workers.
Demanded that Congress limit the number of immigrants.
Built cleaner, safer factories so immigrants could work
6
The case, Plessy vs. Ferguson 1896, went to trial because of the denial of which amendment?
15th Amendment granted the right to vote to men of all races
18th Amendment banned the sale and manufacture of alcohol.
21st Amendment ended nationwide prohibition of alcohol
14th Amendment granted equal citizenship to all Americans.
7
How did Orville and Wilbur Wright contribute to the rise of the United States as a world power?
They developed a major corporation around the telephone.
Started the aircraft industry with their experiments flying.
Created an electrical system to make light bulbs practical.
Improved the assembly line and systems of mass production.
8
Who developed the Bessemer process which converted iron into steel?
John D. Rockefeller
Thomas Edison
Andrew Carnegie
Lewis Latimer
9
Jim Crow Laws were created to
Legalize racial segregation
Enforce integration among ethnic groups
Provide educational opportunities for all races.
Protect the rights of individuals
10
The telephone, invented by Alexander Graham Bell, replaced which of the following?
Cell phone
Air plane
Plow
Telegraph
11
Which of the following shows a hardship endured by immigrants after they arrived in America?
many goods to choose from
finding a suitable place to live
Religious Freedom
riches were available to most immigrants
12
Which of the following is an example of supply and demand?
Farmers produced more crops causing the prices to fall.
Immigrants were paid more because of over population.
Big business was able to form a monopoly.
Immigrants demanded higher paying jobs.
13
What did the Supreme Court rule in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson?
African Americans would pay additional taxes.
African Americans could own their own land.
African Americans were allowed to vote.
African Americans would have separate but equal facilities.
14
What allowed Henry Ford’s Model T to be sold for less than half the cost of other cars?
The use of cheaper materials
the use of an assembly line and mass production
the fact that no two cars were exactly alike
not following safety standards
15
What impact did availability of electricity have upon the homes in the late 1800s?
led to the invention washing machines and vacuum cleaners.
None of the above.
The telegraph was a popular device used in more homes.
Fewer homes needed electricity.
16
How did new methods of mass production contribute to the Industrial Revolution? (5-3.1)
by creating products more quickly and cheaply
by allowing products to be made more slowly and carefully
by increasing products made by skilled workers
by making many products that were more expensive
17
What happened as America shifted from an agrarian (farming) nation to an industrial nation?
It led to higher crop output.
New technologies helped farm work get done quicker.
All of the above
Many people moved to the cities to make more money.
18
How did the US economy change after Reconstruction?
The US became a manufacturing and production country.
Trade was important to the US
More people moved to the country because of overcrowding
Farmers produced more crops
19
Why did immigrants often live in communities with others from their home country?
There was no interest in building a new life in America.
It helped to make adjusting to life in America easier.
It was illegal for them to live elsewhere.
Housing was not available in other areas.
20
Invention improved by Thomas Edison most changed the way that factories operated?
Automobile
Air Plane
Telephone
Light Bulb

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